the_lirazel reviewed Summer will show by Sylvia Townsend Warner (Virago modern classics)
Review of 'Summer will show' on 'Goodreads'
I really just don't know what to make of this. On paper, this should have become an instant favorite for me: the wlw, the revolution, the exploration of two people who should hate each other instead finding themselves in each other. But y'all, the antisemitism.
It seems the consensus among GoodReads reviewers is that the author herself doesn't hate Jewish people, that she's just recreating the way an upper-class British woman in 1848 would feel. But does it really matter when it's that gross and othering? Regardless of whether Townsend Warner "meant it," it really made me very uncomfortable to read.